Constant Content

greetings;
i'm new and just trying to figure everything out. after visiting the requested content page, i wondered why buyers don't search and buy articles already submitted.

i was trying to see if there was still interest in buying the article by how may articles were submitted on the particular subject.

if i write an article and submit it to the buyer and they do not purchase it, does it become available to the public, so i have not wasted my time writing for nothing? thanks for you help.

regards;
maryjane

Many customers do search and buy. By being able to custom request articles as well, they can get exactly what they want. For example, the "freemason" request -- he wants articles on a very specific subject -- a subject that doesn't likely have any existing articles pre-written. He can get articles written specifically to meet his needs. It's a huge selling point that CC makes to drive potential customers to the site. Not only can they specify budget, word count, topic, but keywords as well. They're under no obligation to buy if they don't find a suitable article (but they usually do! That's the good news).

Articles that don't sell to the requester often sell later to someone else. You have to weigh your chances along with the topic. An obscure topic may not sell to someone else, but a popular topic (gardening, mortgages, family, lifestyle etc) has an awfully good chance.

Yes, your article is immediately available to the public on acceptance (except the private articles). In fact, customers can subscribe to certain categories and recieve an email when a new article is posted to their category of choice! So if you sub a gardening article, an email goes out to interested gardening customers that there's a new article on the site they might want to check out.

Give it a try, it's a decent system that's good for both the customers as well as the writers. Shoot, we write on spec all the time and spend all kinds of time and effort (and postage) mailing articles and queries to magazines and book publishers -- and are lucky to even get a response saying, "No thanks."

Good luck!

Celeste;
how kind of you to explain in depth, i think i got it, thanks again.

kind regards,
maryjane